Homecoming
Jennifer Urie
They arent you
Filthy rambling men who line the cold sidewalks
And vacant doorways like strewn laundry
They mutter with strange tongues
And unknown enemies
Filtering through broken minds
Look hard in manhatten,
Amidst the rotten garbage
Stranded in the crevices
Of dark looming alleyways
Between towering monsters
Who mean to hide them
Beautiful facades deceive
Flickers of ticker tape bring remembrances
Of heroic feats. They stood like steel sentinels
For uncle sam.
Prcisely laced, polished boots
Thick with mud and blood
They tracked adversaries
Through rice field and villages of thatch roofed huts
Skies released relentless rains
Chilling to the bone
The incessant din of water
Fell on metal helmets
Like chinese water torture
Loneliness echoed through hollow fields
And empty souls
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